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Acacia parramattensis

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Acacia parramattensis Tindale, Contr. New South Wales Natl Herb . 3: 127 (1962)

Sydney Green Wattle , Parramatta Wattle

Shrub or tree to 15 m high. Bark smooth or fissured, black, brown or green. Branchlets almost terete or slightly angular, with ridges, appressed-puberulous with grey, white or yellow hairs, glabrescent, non-glaucous. Young foliage-tips yellow, velvety-pubescent. Leaves subcoriaceous, dark green; petiole above pulvinus (0.5–) 1–2.3 cm long, with a glabrous or sparsely puberulous gland at base of or to 5 mm below lowest pair of pinnae; rachis (1.5–) 3.5–11 cm long, with a depressed-oblong or depressed-spherical gland at the base of each pair of pinnae, sometimes with 1 or rarely 2 smaller interjugay glands between pairs of pinnae; pinnae (3–) 6–16 pairs, (1.5–) 2.5–6 cm long; pinnules (14–) 20–40 (–62) pairs, cultrate to linear, 2–7 (–9) mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, glabrous except along margins, apex broadly rounded or subacute. Inflorescences rarely in axillary racemes, mostly in terminal or axillary false-panicles. Heads 20–40-flowered, pale yellow. Pods submoniliform, flat, 2.5–11 cm long, 3.5–8 mm wide, coriaceous, black or brown, grey-puberulous, glabrescent. n = 13, B.G.Briggs, Contr. New South Wales Natl Herb . 3: 127 (1962).

Occurs in N.S.W. chiefly from Yengo S to Tumut and W to Grenfell; common in Sydney and Canberra (A.C.T.); possibly naturalised in Tas. and areas of N.S.W.; often cultivated. Grows in open forest or woodland, chiefly on shale, also on other formations. Flowers Nov.- Apr.; fruits Nov.- Feb.

Allied to A. mearnsii in which the pinnules are densely hairy on the lower surface and the branchlets are velvety-pubescent.

Type of accepted name

Railway Parade, Hazelbrook, Blue Mtns, N.S.W., 2 Jan. 1960, M.D.Tindale s.n. ; holo: NSW; iso: K, L, US.

Synonymy

Racosperma parramattense (Tindale) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 358 (1987). Type: as for accepted name.

Acacia sulcipes Sieber ex G.Don, Gen. Hist . 2: 419 (1832), pro synon., nom. inval . Type: Sieber Fl. Nov. Holl. 460; iso: BR (1660); photo: K.

Illustrations

A.Fairley & P.Moore, Native Pl. Sydney District 118, pl. 339 (1989); D.A.Morrison & S.J.Davies, in G.J.Harden (ed.), Fl. New South Wales 2: 390 (1991).

Representative collections

N.S.W.: 13.7 km N of Goulburn, M.Evans 2779 (A, AD, CANB, CHR, K, K, NSW); mile [0.8 km] S of Maroota turnoff to McGrath’s Hill, 8 Oct. 1960, M.D.Tindale s.n. (NSW); near Deepwell Stn, 12 miles [19.3 km] N of Marulan, M.D.Tindale s.n. (NSW84596); near Glen Ferguson the Umaralla road, M.D.Tindale 4023, M.Parris & D.Wimbush (CANB, NSW, P, Z). A.C.T.: Canberra, R.Pullen 8734 (CANB, NSW).

(MDT & PGK)

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The information presented here originally appeared on the WATTLE CD-ROM which was jointly published by the Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, and the Department of Parks and Wildlife, Perth; it was produced by CSIRO Publishing from where it is available for purchase. The WATTLE custodians are thanked for allowing us to post this information here.

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